Just about time to head off to WisCon. I’m looking forward to a weekend of passionate, buoyant geekery. Getting to run Blade & Crown tomorrow night will be an added bonus! I hope to see you there. Expect more early … Continue reading
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In my multi-year Blade & Crown campaign, a weird thing happened a couple sessions ago. A player rolled some dice. They then decided to use a Trait. Adding the Trait caused their roll to go down! How did that happen? … Continue reading
Having had it recommended to me many times, I finally watched the movie Ofelas (Pathfinder) recently. It lives up to the reviews; what a good find! It’s set in northern Scandinavia, in the land of the Sami people (sometimes incorrectly … Continue reading
If you missed my Mountain Monastery Mystery at Con of the North, you’ll get another chance to play it this coming Memorial Day weekend (May 23-26) at WisCon! WisCon is a wonderful convention with amazingly deep conversations, but it hasn’t … Continue reading
I didn’t do a whole lot of gaming at Minicon 49. A hoped-for game of Star Traders didn’t pan out. But I played a bit of Zar; played a couple rounds of Moneyduck (our local variant of EPYC) as well … Continue reading
One of my favorite panels of the con, this was Saturday afternoon: Terra Incognita: The Role of Maps in SF&F Literature A discussion of maps used in speculative fiction, either as endpieces or as part of the story. What are … Continue reading
My standards for fantasy magic: it should, I believe, be mysterious, powerful and rare. This is my preference in all fantasy RPGs, especially Blade & Crown. As I was designing B&C, the powerful part wasn’t hard to work out. Magic … Continue reading
Again inspired by the Build a World events run by Ben Rosenbaum at WisCon, and encouraged by previous iterations of this activity, I did a session of this at Minicon 49. We were inspired by the con’s official theme (Pirates … Continue reading
I’ve updated the sample Blade & Crown character downloads again. I found more typos in them last night. The joys of a single-person operation! Please let me know if you find any other inaccuracies in the characters or any of … Continue reading
After “Fandom or Fandoms”, I had a choice between two panels that both looked pretty good: “Navigating The World Of Small Press Publishing” or “The State of Art in the Gaming Industry”. Navigating the World of Small Press Publishing How … Continue reading